You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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